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Matthew Paul Turner joined us on SBE this week to talk about growing up in a fundamentalist church and family where even contemporary Christian music was condemned as “of the devil.” His new book, Churched: One Kid's Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess, is a funny and painful account of how his faith made it through alive.

Matthew is the author of a bunch of books including The Christian Culture Survival Guide and The Coffeehouse Gospel. He's a former editor of CCM and he blogs at MatthewPaulTurner.com.

Friday, 11.21.08 - John Fischer - Author of the popular devotional, Catch of the Day

Friday, 11.28.08 - Mark Driscoll - Pastor of Mars Hill Church

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When this program first aired, The Shack was #8 on Amazon. It's now holding at #3 (first and second place are held by Barack Obama). Not bad for a book that Young wrote as a gift to his 6 children and was never intended to be published.

Join us as we talk about pain, loss, God, some of the controversy surrounding The Shack, and William Paul Young's personal journey and how it shaped the book that is now a phenomenon.

Visit TheShackBook.com for more on the book and visit WindRumors.com for more from Mr. Young.

Join us as we talk about fear and voting in the post-evangelical wilderness.

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The Internet Monk, aka Michael Spencer, is a campus minister, communicator, writer and popular blogger. Read his latest post on Halloween in The Guest Room and visit InternetMonk.com…if you dare [insert evil laugh here].

Also, here are links to the comedy bits played in this show…The House of Smite and Levote-tra

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- John Armstrong - Rev. Jeremiah Wright and racism in the Church

- Campolo & Darling - Tony Campolo and Mary Darling talk about reconnecting ancient spiritual practices, evangelism, and justice

- Shane Claiborne - Jesus for President

- DeYoung & Kluck - Why We're Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)

- Guinness & Smith - A discussion of An Evangelical Manifesto with Os Guinness and Warren Smith

- Douglas Gresham - Co-producer of the Narnia films and C.S. Lewis' stepson

- Larroux & Moore - Lagniappe Church and restoring the Gulf Coast

- Gabe Lyons - Founder of Fermi Project and co-author of unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity…and Why it Matters

- Kevin Max - "The black sheep of dc Talk" on his album The Blood

- Rick McKinley - This Beautiful Mess: Practicing the Presence of the Kingdom of God

- Connie Neal - Author of The Gospel According to Harry Potter and What's a Christian to Do with Harry Potter?

- Jeffrey Overstreet - Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth and Evil in the Movies

- Mark Pinsky - A Jew Among Evangelicals: A Guide for the Perplexed

- Daniel Radosh - Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture

- John W. Whitehead - The Change Manifesto - The foundation for a street-by-street movement to create an America that works for its citizens

For more interviews with great guests like Brian McLaren, Mark Driscoll, Renée Altson, Donald Miller, Dan Allender, Anne Lamott and way more, visit The Brown Sessions archive.

People all over the world have experienced new life in their walk with God through Steve Brown's teaching (check it out at KeyLife.org). Many of these fine folks find their way to this site and figure that Steve has lost his mind.

Join us on this week's program as Steve spends some time explaining himself and how SBE fits into our mission.

Then, Dan Darling stops by to talk about his book, Teen People of the Bible: Celebrity Profiles of Real Faith and Tragic Failure. If you or someone you know is a messed up teenager, there's hope. Don't miss our discussion of the masterful way God accepts and moves in the lives of this baffling, hormone-driven, exceedingly flawed segment of the population.

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- Tony Campolo - The Church & politics

- Dinesh D'Souza - Debating the new atheists

- John Eldredge - Walking with God

- John Freeman - Homosexuals and the Church

- Os Guinness - The Case for Civility - Living together with our deepest differences

- Joel Hunter - A New Kind of Conservative

- A.J. Jacobs - The Year of Living Biblically

- Tony Jones - The national coordinator of Emergent Village discusses the emergent phenomenon

- Tim Keller - The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

- David Kinnaman - unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity…and Why it Matters

- Mike Meagher - The story of 12 years in the earth’s coldest continually inhabited region living with and serving the Sakha people of Siberia

- Sara Miles - Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

- Marvin Olasky - The Tragedy of American Compassion

- Frank Schaeffer - Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back.

- Michael Spencer (The Internet Monk) - Homosexuals & Evangelicals

- Dick Staub - The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite

- Frank Viola - Pagan Christianity?

- John W. Whitehead - The U.S. government has an arsenal of surveillance tools… and they're aimed directly at you!

- William Paul Young - Author of The Shack

For more interviews with great guests like Mark Driscoll, Renée Altson, Donald Miller, Dan Allender, Anne Lamott and way more, visit The Brown Sessions archive.

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Carl Wilson is our guest on this week's Steve Brown Etc. to talk about his new book, Liberty in an Evil Age. Join us for a discussion of the root of our financial crisis and the way to real security and freedom. Use one of the options below to listen.

Mr. Wilson is President and C.E.O. of Andragathia Inc. He has published numerous books on marriage, family, discipleship and the effects of scientific philosophy on the decline of civilizations.

Visit BraveGoodMen.org to find out more about Carl Wilson and Andragathia Inc.

Friday, 10.24.08 - Why Steve Brown Etc.? - A discussion of why we think SBE matters followed by an interview with Dan Darling

Friday, 10.31.08 - Michael Spencer - The Internet Monk and blogger at Jesus Shaped Spirituality

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If you find yourself working toward others' goals instead of living from your center, check out this show. Nationally respected leadership coaches Dr. Mick Ukleja and Dr. Robert Lorber join us on this edition of Steve Brown Etc. to talk about Four-Dimensional Thinking and how it can change the course of your life.

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In their book, Who Are You and What Do You Want?, Ukleja and Lorber take you through a self-interrogating process that helps you define your self and your needs while providing clarity about your purpose, passions and goals. Not only that, they also help you create a plan to help you reach those goals.

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Dr. Henry Cloud, consultant, clinical psychologist, and bestselling author of the Boundaries series and Integrity, joins us to talk about his new book, The One-Life Solution: Reclaim Your Personal Life While Achieving Greater Professional Success. Listen to the program and get the book for an examination of how today's workers can better handle stress both in and out of the workplace.

America needs change, but Whitehead says the president isn't the answer. Instead, he calls us back to what the Founding Fathers of America originally intended: A nation whose ultimate power base is the will of its citizens.

In Whitehead's new book, The Change Manifesto, he goes beyond alarmist rhetoric to lay the foundation for a street-by-street, town-by-town movement to create an America that works for its citizens. What's more, he inspires us to hope as he chronicles real life examples of everyday heroes who are creatively fighting for change.

John W. Whitehead is a constitutional attorney, founder of The Rutherford Institute, and blogger in The Guest Room.

Use one of the options below to join us on this edition of SBE as we talk with John Eldredge about his new book, Walking with God: Talk to Him, Hear from Him, Really. This book is straight from John's journals and demonstrates what honest, conversational intimacy with God can be like for every believer.

John Eldredge is founder and director of Ransomed Heart Ministries and bestselling author of The Sacred Romance, Journey of Desire, Wild at Heart, and many more. After you listen, be sure to check out RansomedHeart.com and WalkingwithGod.net for some great resources.

Friday, 09.26.08 - John Whitehead - Constitutional attorney and author of The Change Manifesto

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Lagniappe Church is still there. Their goal? Nothing short of participation in the restoration of creation through the declaration and demonstration of the love of God.

Now, after Hurricane Gustav, in addition to rebuilding, Lagniappe is serving as a Red Cross shelter. Curt and Jean took some time from housing refugees and building houses to talk about their incredible story on this week's SBE. Use one of the options below to listen.

Visit Lagniappe online to find out how you can join them through volunteering, giving and prayer.